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"Labyrinth" is the twelfth episode in the 6th season of Smallville, and the 1 hundred-20-second episode overall. It aired on January 25, 2007.

1 Summary
2 Epitomize
3 Clark's "delusion"
iv Cast
- iv.1 Starring
- 4.two Guest Starring
- 4.3 Co-Starring
five Featured Music
six Title
7 Notes
eight In Other Media
9 Trivia
ten Continuity
11 Spoilers
12 Locations
13 Quotes
14 References

Summary

Clark is attacked and wakes upwards in a mental asylum where the attending physician, Dr. Hudson, tells him he has been in that location for five years due to his elaborate fantasy that he has alien superpowers. In this new earth, Martha is married to Lionel Luthor, Chloe is deemed insane, and Lana chose Clark over Lex. Only one person, another patient named John believes Clark and urges him to fight.

Epitomize

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Clark wakes upwardly in a mental infirmary.

Clark is finishing upwards his farm chores in his barn while waiting for Chloe when Shelby starts barking. He goes to cheque on him, merely is suddenly stricken past a sudden blast of pressure that sends him falling downwards to the befouled floor. He wakes up in a common area of a mental hospital, wearing white scrubs. He is suitably dislocated, but when he asks how he got in that location, the other patients mock and tease him, asking if he got attacked by "krypto-freaks" again. He gets upset and the guards come to carry him abroad. He tries to use his super-speed to get away, but information technology fails him. He is shocked when the guards overpower him and elevate him to a small isolation room. When Clark calms down, an older man, Dr. Hudson, comes in.

Clark thinks he's in Level 33.one and that he has been captured past Lex Luthor. Dr. Hudson tells him that, in fact, he has been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for over 5 years now. He explains that Clark has created an elaborate fantasy in which he was an alien with superpowers, and during his freshman twelvemonth of high school, began to alive in this fantasy all the time. He says Clark is getting worse, merely he has developed a treatment that will soon cure him. Clark tells him to tell Lex that he's not ownership it, but Dr. Hudson patiently says that he has been institutionalized in the Fairview Psychiatric Hospital for five years and his whole hugger-mugger identity and alien lineage is just delusions.

Lana says she is waiting for Clark to get better.

Dorsum in the common room, Clark is standing in line for medication when another patient whispers that he believes him, addressing him equally Kal-El. He claims that he is from Mars. Notwithstanding, just equally he tells Clark not to trust anyone, the orderlies come behind him and taser him unconscious. Clark sees a janitor enter a broom closet and follows him in. He sneaks up on him, punches him out, and steals his uniform, escaping out of a side door. Clark heads to the befouled to find Lana in his loft. It is furnished with Lana'south things and she is dressed up and delighted to see him. She runs into his arms, but Clark has to inquire why she's there. She says that she and Nell bought the farm after Jonathan'south expiry and she lives there waiting for him. Clark is still dislocated, especially when Lana says they accept been dating since freshman yr. Clark asks about Whitney, but Lana insists that he is the only person she has ever loved. She thinks Clark took Dr. Hudson'due south treatment and was released, but Clark admits that he escaped and says Lex put him in there. He says he doesn't care if they're engaged, but Lana says she inappreciably knows Lex. Clark thinks Lana is in on it and demands to know where his mother is. Lana says she is at the Luthor Mansion and Clark exits quickly.

Lex reveals that Clark caused his automobile accident.

Clark finds Martha in the library and Martha says everyone has been looking for him since he escaped. Clark is shocked that his female parent allowed him to exist in in that location, but Martha tells him to at-home down. She admits that following Jonathan's death, she and Lionel are actually married, and urges him to take the handling. She pushes an warning and Clark runs abroad. Guards chase him through the grounds and only as they are about to capture him, Chloe drives up and Clark climbs into the car with her. Chloe seems to believe that everything is dissimilar and tells him that she has been in hiding because she knows the truth almost him. Clark says he wants to confront Lex, but Chloe doesn't agree. Clark insists and Chloe lets him infringe her car. Clark arrives in Lex's office and accuses him of taking his powers. Lex is aroused and frustrated with Clark and reveals that he has lost both legs in their first meeting and is now wheelchair-jump. He bitterly recounts how Clark, in his delusion, jumped in front of his auto and Lex swerved to miss him and wrapped his car around a guardrail. He is extremely furious that Clark will not come out of his fantasy world and bitterly wishes that he had but run him over. Clark is visibly taken aback by this turn of events.

When he arrives at the Talon, he is shocked to see that it is nonetheless an abased movie theater. Lana appears and Clark asks if Lex's story is true. Lana just says that they can get through anything together. She says they've been together since kindergarten and shows him a plastic band, claiming that he gave it to her when they were ten. Clark gives information technology back and runs up to the apartment to find Chloe. Chloe assures him that they aren't crazy and they have to hide out until he gets his powers back.

Clark prepares to leave with her, but Lana shows up and tells Clark that Chloe also escaped from the mental institution a few months early on. Lana begs Clark to come with her to get help and when he appears to exist convinced, Chloe pushes past him. Clark begs her to stay, but she insists they will kill her when they take hold of her. Just then, 2 guards show upward to collect them. When Chloe draws a handgun, they shoot her in the chest. She dies in Clark's arms, muttering that she'due south not crazy. Upset over Chloe'due south death, Clark allows Lana and the guards to take him back to the institution.

Dr. Hudson proves to Clark that meteor rock tin't hurt him.

Dr. Hudson later tells him that he will be fine afterwards his treatment. Clark insists he is not going to go through with it, but Dr. Hudson begins to bear witness Clark that all of the circumstances and people that Clark thinks makes up his Kryptonian groundwork accept been taken from ordinary objects in his everyday earth. He shows Clark a piece of shooting star rock and Clark automatically jumps back in fear. When Dr. Hudson shows Clark that the rock is harmless to him, Clark seems to realize that Dr. Hudson is really telling the truth. He realizes Chloe is really dead and slides to the basis in defeat.

Clark prepares to undergo Dr. Hudson'southward treatment.

Clark finds the patient from the medication line is his neighbor in the restraint room. He tells Clark that he must fight, but Clark is subdued and listless. He explains that Dr. Hudson is a Phantom Zone prisoner trying to proceeds control of Clark's torso past controlling his listen unless Clark fights back. He says he is also in his heed trying to aid; for Clark to regain consciousness, he must kill Dr. Hudson. He urges him to trust himself when the orderlies blitz into his room. They terrorize him with a lighter and beat him upwardly. Clark is taken to the treatment room where Lana is waiting. Clark once again tries to resist, but Lana points out that she doesn't know why Clark is so eager to return to a reality in which they are autonomously and he is an alien who has caused so much pain. She convinces him to take the treatment and be normal and with her for the rest of their lives. They strap Clark to a tabular array and Dr. Hudson starts up a drill. Merely as it advances towards Clark's caput, he starts to hear a barking and growling racket. Recognizing it as Shelby, Clark realizes he is nonetheless in his barn and starts to struggle. He breaks loose and strangles Dr. Hudson.

The Martian Manhunter saves Clark once again.

He wakes up in the barn with the other "patient" mysteriously standing over him, holding a crystal that captures the phantom. Only as Chloe arrives, Clark watches as he flies away in a streak of red light.

Chloe takes Clark back into his firm and says he was only out for a second. Clark tries to explicate his fractured dream-world and tells Chloe how he was willing to give up everything and everyone he loved for Lana. He says that even though she is with Lex, he must still be in beloved with her. She asks what her role was, but Clark refrains from telling her that she was institutionalized also. He merely says that she was the only person who believed in him.

Clark and Lana converse in the Talon when Lex arrives.

Clark runs into Lana at the Talon and she guesses that he has something on his listen. He tells her that he dreamed they were engaged when they were ten and Lana is tickled. They accept a friendly chat and Lex arrives. Clark says information technology's expert to see him out and about and Lex says he appreciates the civility. And then as he and Lana get out together, she looks dorsum at Clark with emotion.

Clark's "delusion"

While in the mental hospital, Clark notices several things that allude to his superhuman origins:

An antibacterial soap called Jorel.
Dr. Milton Fine being called over the P.A. system to report to Level Three.
A book titled Fortress of Solitude which was near other books titled The Crystal Transport and a volume title ending with Labyrinth.
A mag with the words The Phantom Zone on it.
Pictures of Victor Stone, Arthur Back-scratch and Oliver Queen, but the people pictured were non the aforementioned people he met before.
The nurse's name is Raya.
331 was actually the occupancy limit of the building.

Cast

Starring

Tom Welling equally Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang
Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor
Erica Durance as Lois Lane (credit only)
Allison Mack equally Chloe Sullivan
John Glover equally Lionel Luthor (credit only)
Annette O'Toole equally Martha Kent

Guest Starring

Phil Morris equally John Jones/Martian Manhunter
Matthew Walker as Dr. Hudson

Co-Starring

Aleks Paunovic equally Orderly
Malcolm Scott as Patient #1
Grame Duffy as Patient #2
Dwayne Byshun every bit Janitor
Shawn Stewart equally Security Baby-sit
Mike Dopud as George
Candus Churchill equally Prescription Nurse

Featured Music

"Yesterday" - Chris Heifner

Title

A labyrinth is "an intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to detect one's manner/a maze."
In this episode, Clark is trapped by Dr. Hudson in a "labyrinth" in his listen.
In Greek mythology, the hero Theseus was able to find his way through the Creten labyrinth using a ball of string and the assistance of Male monarch Midas' daughter, Ariadne. In Clark's fantasy world, Martian Manhunter serves as the guide that helps Clark find the way out of his mental labyrinth.

Notes

Antagonist: Dr. Hudson
Martian Manhunter Abilities: Heed Walking, Flying
Lois Lane and Lionel Luthor do not announced in this episode. Martha Kent only appears in Clark'due south delusion.
Pete Ross' fate in this alternating universe is not mentioned or explored. Information technology is not made clear whether or not Lois exists in the alternating universe.
Clark's beau patient is Martian Manhunter, a DC Comics superhero. In Clark's delusion, the Martian Manhunter is shown to exist agape of the guard'south lighter flame. In the comics, burn is one of his weaknesses. The Martian Manhunter currently wears a blue outfit, represented hither by John'due south blue scrubs and later, his blueish leather jacket.
Although not in the circulate, Martian Manhunter calls himself John Jones in a deleted scene on the Flavour 6 DVD box set. He explains that he worked with Jor-El as a compensation hunter and has dealt with the criminals from the Phantom Zone. He warns Clark of the terminal phantom and tells him that Clark is likewise preoccupied with living the life of a homo. Had this scene been included, Clark would have known the Martian Manhunter'due south identity halfway through season six, but since it was deleted, Clark doesn't get to know who the Manhunter is until the flavor finale, Phantom. The conversation between Clark and the Manhunter in Phantom re-uses some of the dialogue from this deleted scene.
In Clark's mirage, Oliver Queen is a security guard, Raya is a nurse, Milton Fine is a md, Arthur Back-scratch and Victor Stone are patients, Jor-El is the name of a handsoap, and "Phantom Zone" and "Fortress of Solitude" are titles of books. 331 is the capacity of Clark's ward.
Shelby can be heard growling throughout the episode. At some points, the phantom makes noises as well. Shelby is the hero who saves Clark this fourth dimension, by making him realize that all this was non real and that he was really still in the Kent befouled. Also, throughout the entire delusion sequence, a abiding, monotonous drone accompanies the soundtrack, which is perhaps meant to signify the Martian Manhunter's try to remove the phantom from Clark's mind using the crystal.
Clark wears a hat for a tertiary fourth dimension in the series this episode. The first was in Thirst and the second was in Lexmas.

In Other Media

In Clark's delusion, Lex is shown in a wheelchair. The super-villain, Ultra-Humanite, was originally a bald homo in a wheelchair.^[ane] It may also be an allusion to Lex being forced to amputate his arm in the comics due to kryptonite poisoning.

Trivia

This episode is very similar to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Normal Once more", in which Buffy Summers was drugged into assertive that she was in a mental institution for dreaming up her life as the Slayer. The master difference is that Clark believed that he was in a mental establishment at all times, while Buffy but suffered flashes back and forth between the real earth and the hallucination, whereas the main similarity was that they both were superpowered heroes, and a primary character around their friends, in a perfect world.
The name of the Fairview Psychiatric Hospital in the episode is probable inspired by the Fairview neighborhood of Vancouver'due south Westward Side, where the Vancouver Full general Infirmary is located; and the historic Riverview Hospital, a now-demolished psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia, the outside of which was afterward used as Dr. Curtis Knox'southward dispensary in the Season 7 episode Cure.
The 2019 DC motion picture Shazam used a similar plotline of a male child causing a motorcar crash which fabricated another person lose his legs, and being considered insane ever since. The person crippled was besides a billionaire, played past John Glover, the aforementioned actor who played Lionel Luthor in the series.

Continuity

Martian Manhunter saved Clark from the Zoner Aldar in Static.
This is the first time that Whitney Fordman has been seen or mentioned since Façade. It is besides the final episode of the serial in which he is referenced.
Lana references Chloe's family history of mental disease, touched on in Scare and Tomb.
The song that plays at the finish, "Yesterday," by Hefshill, during Clark and Lana's conversation at the Talon is the same 1 playing in the Flavor Ii episode Lineage when Clark and Lana accept a conversation in his loft and Clark urges her to try again to get to know her biological father.
Shelby was last seen in Vessel.
This episode marks the 48th appearance of Clark's red jacket & blue shirt outfit, which he wears ofttimes throughout the series.

Spoilers

Chloe coins the term "Martian Manhunter" in the next episode, Crimson.
When Clark tells her how much she means to him, Chloe makes a joke about "Barry Manilow" music, a reference to the American singer-songwriter famous for his emotional soft-rock beloved songs.

Locations

Smallville
- Kent Subcontract (barn, loft)
- Luthor Mansion
- Talon

Metropolis
- Luthorcorp Plaza

Quotes

Dr. Hudson: For the last v and a half years, you've been a resident of the Fairview psychiatric hospital. Everything else-- your superpowers, your conflicting lineage, your hugger-mugger identity-- it's all a delusion.

Dr. Hudson: When the human listen has faced tremendous emotional hurting, it has no option but to protect itself. You lot've taken bits and pieces of your surroundings and created an alternate universe where y'all feel safety and secure. Clark, in a globe where yous truly have no power, y'all chose to give yourself superpowers.

John : You lot're not crazy, Kal-El. We don't have much fourth dimension, then listen to me closely. I believe yous're from another planet.

Clark: What makes you say that?

John : Considering like you, I'm not from here. I come from Mars. You can't trust anyone.

Clark: I don't know what I'd do without you lot, Chloe.

Chloe: Oh, is this when I'g supposed to cue the Barry Manilow music?

Clark: No, seriously. Y'all mean a lot more than to me than you lot know.

John: You can't give in, Kal-El. Y'all must resist. None of this is real!

Martian Manhunter: Welcome home, Kal-El.

Clark: I know who I am!

Dr. Hudson: I'chiliad non sure you exercise. Your name is Clark Kent, not Kal-El. And Jor-El isn't your father.

Clark: Shelby. Thank you buddy, y'all saved my life.

References

↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-humanite

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